2021-10-10

Cool

• G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch Issued for 11 October 2021

  Aurora may be visible in NY, WI, WA

Worthy

• The Mind Has No Firewall (1998) | Hacker News

  I have no idea if this is the type of thing they put as reading material in toilets in the pentagon (which I fully support if they also regularly run out of toilet paper) or if this is what top level intelligence analysis is. If it's the former the West is doomed.

• (2017) The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project - LessWrong

• Some Covid Links - Cafe Hayek

• Letter to a Covidian: A Time-Travel Experiment - by Margaret Anna Alice - Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

etc

• 600 Southwest Air Flights Cancelled, 700 Delayed Due to ATC Staffing and Weather

  • 4chan Rumors last night attributed this caused to a large walkout of ATC personnel over vaccine mandates.

Horseshit

• How Warhammer 40k explains human psychology: The Worst Story Ever - by Carlos - The Presence of Everything

• 'Six Days in Fallujah' is an Arab murder simulator, critics say

• Them who never read economics are doomed to recreate it from scratch: Farmers of the Internet - by Pr0ph3t - Theofuturism

  We all know how to practically approach the Web3 world as a casino. Since you're reading this, I can safely assume you're at least familiar with the process if you haven't already taken the plunge yourself. Load up a brand new crypto wallet, hit Twitter or Coinbase or Opensea, ape, repeat process until moon or broke. But I am beginning to see recent developments that signal a change, as a new type of crypto native seems to point to a totally different emerging economy. Decentralized finance, which allows for a holder's tokens to be "yield farmed" through smart contract lending, has allowed income streams to be generated for those with the patience to lock up their tokens.

celebrity gossip

• SpaceX tourist says she was sick first two days of mission

• Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West says he has Covid-19

• Paul Simon, American Scribe, at Age 80

• Bill Maher Shocks Liberal Audience With Trump 2024 Predictions: "I Hope I Scared The Shit Out Of You" | ZeroHedge

Obit

• Abdul Qadeer Khan, “father” of the atomic bomb in Pakistan, is dead

  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, has died at 85

• US Army General Who Commanded in Iraq Dies of Cancer at 67

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Merrick Garland's Problems With His Son-In Law Just Got Worse | ZeroHedge

• The gap between the ruling class and everyone else is reaching Soviet levels - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

• French Reject American 'Woke' Culture That's 'Racializing' Their Country

• Merriam-Webster Thought Police Just Changed The Definition Of 'Anti-Vaxxer' To Attack Opponents Of Government Mandates

• Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu. | Mises Wire

• Why women are more burned out than men

• It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda

• Terry McAuliffe Tells Black Anchor That Bringing Up Critical Race Theory Is ‘Racist.’

• US workers overwhelmingly comply with Covid vaccine mandates

Edumacationalizing

• Why the latest campus cancellation is different

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Updating our ads and monetization policies on climate change

• Hate-Speech Laws Have Never Worked

• China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization

Facebook

• Facebook harms its users because that’s where its profits are

• How Instagram led to two teens' eating disorders

• 'SNL' has the Facebook whistleblower help congress understand social media

• “Facebook Facing a Big Tobacco Moment”

• Facebook plans to reduce the presence of politics on people's feeds, Nick Clegg

TechSuck

• Blue light from monitors no danger to eyes or sleep

• Samsung apologizes for a Russian backdoor they sent to phones in the UK

• China’s cameras face fresh scrutiny in Europe

• Boston Dynamics' plan to commercialize its robots

Economicon

• Life in the New American Suburbs

• Why do people worry about deficits? - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

• Tether: A Nearly $70B Time Bomb

• 40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months

• Digital Payments Are Convenient. They Also Can Wreak Havoc on Your Finances

• Sickout? Southwest Airlines Cancels 1,000 More Flights As Disruptions Increase

  The firm’s Saturday statement also blamed the issue on air traffic control problems and the weather. “We experienced significant impact in the Florida airports yesterday (Friday) evening after an FAA-imposed air traffic management program was implemented due to weather and resulted in a large number of cancellations,” Southwest said.

Poilitcks

• State emergency health orders during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2021 - Ballotpedia

• Let’s Go Brandon: The new viral meme taking the internet by storm

• How Money has flowed from the fields of Dominican Republic to South Dakota

  + [How South Dakota has become a global tax
  haven](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/heres-how-states-like-south-dakota-have-become-global-tax-havens.html)
  

  • Foreign money floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted

Law / Crime / Police

• LASD investigating mysterious death of man in Hawthorne | KTLA

  • California man dies after being beaten by people he tried to hit with truck

Security / Militaria

• Troops to Get 'Climate Literacy' Education Under Pentagon's New Climate Change Plan | Military.com

• Nuclear security helicopter scours Boston Marathon route for radiation

• The China Sleepwalking Syndrome by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. - Project Syndicate

• Civilian Navy nuclear engineer charged with trying to share submarine secrets

  • Maryland husband and wife arrested in nuclear submarine spy case

World

• Putin slashes Russia’s space budget

• Erdogan Protest: Hidden Hotel Printer Floods Istanbul Street with Leaflets

• Hundreds of healthy pigs slaughtered amid UK shortage of abattoir workers

• Lebanon's Main State Power Plants Run Out of Fuel, Shut Down

• NSW Premier cops a spray of beer to the face

• Taiwan’s President Says It Won’t Be Forced to Bow to China

• Police Arrest Indian Minister's Son in Killing of Farmers

• How Does China’s Military View India? – The Diplomat

• Singapore New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Study saying Covid-19 vaccines cause heart inflammation withdrawn over errors

• Is America Prepared for the Pandemic After Covid-19?

• Why one doctor is 'worried' about Covid-19 heading into winter

• Report: Moderna Fails to Supply Poor Countries with COVID Vaccines

• Is my immunity waning? Doctors advise Pfizer vaccine recipients not to worry

• (Aug 2021) Transparency of Covid-19 vaccine trials: decisions without data

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Dropping Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth

• California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

• Biodiversity loss risks 'ecological meltdown' – scientists